Thought:

“Where, where are now the great reports

Of those huge haugthy earth-born giants?

Where are the lofty tow’rs and forts

Of those proud kings bade Heav’n defiance?

When them I to my mind revoke,

Methinks I see a mighty smoke

Thick mounting from quick-burning matter

Which in an instant winds do scatter.”

Joshua Sylvester | “Fuimus Fumus”